Southwest Airlines has launched a new fare type, and it might actually be good news for consumers (which sure doesn’t follow the industry trend). While we first learned about this in late March, tickets with this new fare class are now on sale, so we have a sense of pricing.
Continue reading: Southwest Launches “Wanna Get Away Plus” Fares
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Why would anyone with Anytime or Business Select want to transfer their credit to someone else over getting a refund?
And depend on how they price WGA+, this could potentially cannibalize Anytime fares as all the key flexibility is now offered with WGA+.
My biggest concern is what will they take away from WGA in the future.
Agreed
But that, with the same day changes on WGA+, will be great
All comes down to what a small increment is to the fare difference, as the difference between WGA and Anytime is often significant. I assume they're going to want to keep it close to WGA to get folks to trade up for $25-$50,
It's always nice to have more options. Kudos to Southwest for not removing or changing anything else.
If the fare is up to $20 more maybe, but that is pushing it even given the relative value to have an upgraded purchase.
After a 30 minute trip turned into a 4 hour trip on Southwest between Oahu and Maui over New Years holiday, I want to get away from Southwest. The pilot refused to fly with a broken windshield wiper. No rain in the forecast and he grounded the plane for a broken windshield wiper. All commercial airplanes should have bleed air ducts to keep the windshield clear.
Bleed air duct. Nice idea. But please stop trying to add another system to an already over complicated system.
Now instead of pilot refuse to fly with a broken windshield wiper, they have another excuse of not flying, blocked bleed air ducts.
Ironically, what you just suggested have now increase the probability that a system would fail and result in more delays.
Even their "wanna get away" prices are now too expensive. WN has completely forgot its roots.
Completely agree. Even pre-Covid, WN was hardly cheaper - if at all - than the US3 for any route where there was even the slightest overlap. Several times they were considerably more expensive. On the rare occasions where they were cheaper, it was by a few dollars - certainly nothing that would sway me to choose no seat assignments and then their silly water-only Covid drink policy. I'm not quite sure what market segment they're hoping to capture anymore. Niche, point-to-point routes serving secondary cities flown by people who must check a bag and don't want to pay? People who don't fly frequently enough to know that the WN fares of the 80s/90s no longer exist? Anyone with firing neurons who can do a modicum of investigating can see there's minimal value proposition of flying WN anymore outside a few specific circumstances.
Totally agree with both of you. I rarely find that Southwest is significantly cheaper than AA, UA, or DL, and is often even more expensive, all for no seat assignments, no upgrades, and often terrible itineraries. No idea what their target market is nowadays as leisure travelers have flocked to Allegiant and Frontier, but I guess we'll find out...
$750 one way BWI to LAS 2 months out is not a discount price. You can have Southwest, wanna get away or not.